Informed that the seat cushions were now prohibited because of terrorist concerns, Deibel responded exactly the way you’d expect a 96-year-old Bills fan to respond.

“Oh jeepers,” he said. “I’m all for the inspections, including the body scanning, and the delay in getting into the stadium is worthwhile for safety. But I think that’s ridiculous to ban seat cushions.”

Bills fans can still bring their own foam pads or portable seat backs, but nothing with covers or pockets.

“I don’t like it,” said Doug Pagano, apparently a counter-terrorism expert. “I don’t think these terrorists are going to put their bombs in seat cushions.

“There are a lot of risks involved in life. You can’t prevent everything. Just because one guy has a bomb in his shoes, why should millions of people have to take off their shoes at airports? You can’t prevent all risks. I think the NFL is going a little bit overboard.”

While that might be true — and the teams would certainly be happy to sell you a brand new seat cushion on each visit — it’s also the kind of change that’s not turning around.

Bills fans will just have to brace themselves and their backsides, or just watch the game on their warm, soft couches.

I would like the NFL top brass go to a Bills game in December and let me know how cold their back side is after a game because I know mine is numb with a cushion. The NFL is really taking the experience for the fan in the WRONG direction and they wonder why attendance is going down.

This has far less to do with the benevolent NFL being worried about its fans being blown up at games, and far more to do with the risk management arm of the NFL not wanting the league to be exposed to any form of claim that it is liable if its fans do, in fact, get blown up at a game.

Not that this is the final straw for me, I don’t bring stuff to games anyway, but this year in staying home. You hear that Roger? I’m staying home and watching the games. I used to get tickets every year for my trip back home, but it’d just not worth it anymore.